Pierre Cordier

(Belgian, born 1933)

chemigram 14.1.64 by pierre cordier

Pierre Cordier

Chemigram 14.1.64, 1964

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Biography

Timeline

1933
Born January 28, Brussels, Belgium
1956
Invents the chemigram technique that combines the physics of painting (varnish, wax, oil) and the chemistry of photography (photosensitive emulsion, developer, fixer); without a camera, without an enlarger, and in full light
1958
Invited by Otto Steinert to attend a course at his school in Saarbrücken, Germany. Being self-taught, it was his only
1965 - 1998
Lectured at École nationale supérieure des Arts visuels de la Cambre, Brussels.
1968
Co-founded with Gottfried Jäger of the Generative Fotografie, Germany
2006
Established Pierre Cordier Foundation
Corresponding member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie
Associate member of the Académie royale de Belgique, classe des Beaux-Arts, section Peinture et Arts apparentés

Exhibitions

2013
Poetics of Construction, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011
Science of Sight: Alternative Photography, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008
Livres # Artistes, Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Belgium
Passages, Collection Thomas Neirynck, BAM, Mons, Brussels, Belgium
2007
Pierre Cordier, cinquante ans du chimigramme, Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium (solo exhibition)
2006
Un monde non-objectif en photographie, II, Galerie Tessa Herold, Paris, France
Gmundner Symposium für Aktuelle Kunst, Konkrete Fotografie, Gmunden, Austria
Bildsysteme / Konkrete Fotografie, Kunstverein Oerlinghausen, Germany
Photomania, Galerie Tessa Herold, Paris, France
2005
Belgische Fotografen 1840 – 2005, FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerp, Belgium

Public Collections

Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Institute of Polytechnics, Tokyo, Japan
Centro Cultural, Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Center for Creative Photography, University of Tucson, AZ
Gernsheim Collection, University of Austin, TX
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France